St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-04

The residence OF JOnn "A. CneeVer, al
Cedarhurst, L. l., was robbed of over
$4,000 worth of silyerware.
F. C. Phister, who was member OF
Congress from 1878 to 1882, died at his
home in Maysville, KY, aged sixty-tive
years.
Philip B. Shumway, well-known rail
road builder, and president OF the Joliet
Aurora and Northern railway, died OF
| apoplexy at Evanston, Ill. .
The State Department has received
from Consul General Phelan at Halifax
a report in the case of the American
schooner Clara j. Friend, which was re-
fused permission to purchase supplies at
that port. The consul general says
that the vessel was engaged in deep sea
fishing on its banks, that the weather
had been very severe and the supplies had
become exhausted. If provisions could
not be secured in Canada the voyage was
likely to prove failure"
At New Orleans, on Monday, Prince
Wells, the champion unicycle rider, rode
ten miles on a unicycle, the longest dis
| lance ever made on one wheel being one
mile. His time was one hour, twenty
quarter seconds, including four stops,
aggregating ten minutes.
B. J. Waters, a deputy constable at
Kansas City, Mo-, found white sub
stance on the pump chain of his cistern
recently. The city chemist pronounced
the powder arsenic, and said there was
enough of it to kill the whole neighbor-
hood
There is no change in the builders
lockout in Chicago. A number of men
have left that city for points in Illinois,
Nebraska and Kansas, where work had
been secured for them. The bricklayers
profess to be satisfied with the situation.
1t is said that general lockout of the
carpenters will be inaugurated shortly.
Owing to disagreement between the
Knights of Labor and the Manufacture
ers' Association at Haverhill, Mass, forty
shoe factories in that town have closed
their doors, throwing out of work 5000
persons. The State board of arbitra-
ton has been appealed 10.
1t is reported by the Commercial Id
rertaser that an organization is being eff
fected among certain capitalists in New
York city to trade in silver bullion Ger
titicates as grain and cotton certificates
are now dealt in. 1.-The head centre of
this organization is to be the new West
ern National Bank, of which ex-Secre-
tary of the Treasury Manning and eX-
Treasurer Jordan are the founders. Mr.
Manning and his associates have planned
to make New York the chief seat of the
silver bullion trade, and thus to transfer
the control of the silver market from
London to New York" Conrad n Jor-
dan, the vice president of the bank, said
'Such scheme is on foot, but not with
US exclusively. There are a number of
men who are getting this idea into shape,
but it will not be ready to be made pub
lie for several weeks yet"
John Hampell went to bed in ST Louis
sick from drinking too much beer. An
hour later he arose and fell from a third
story window to the sidewalk, where he
was picked up half an hour later dead.
Mrs George Marks was killed by
lightning in St. Joseph, Mo, while
undoing clothes line in the yard.
The settlers in Manitoba are reported
to have suffered serious losses last week
from prairie fires and windstorms.
Rev. S. F. Smith, now seventy nine
years of age, who fiftytlve years ago
wrote "My Country, IT'S of Thee" was
entertained in Chicago by the ladies of
the Grand Army of the Republic. The
poets wife is still living, but she was too
feeble to attend
..l;r = .,..e:1 is = lecturo al Ham,
l.><D, u..>., l,4lIer tie a-;sp.ces of the
Irish National League. 1t is proposed
to hold a public meeting to protest
against his lecturing, as was done in
Toronto The Globe and Mail, news
papers of Toronto, severely denounce the
disgraceful attempts made to kill William
O'Brien in that city by mob. Mr..
O'Brien went to Ottowa yesterday, and
he and Mr. Kilbride addressed a large
audience in the rink.
A meeting was held in Cooper Insti-
tute, New York, to protest against the
ratification of the proposed extradition
treaty with Russia. DIR. McGlynn and
Victor Drury, the Internationalist, were
the principal speakers. DR.. McGlynn
said, among other things, that it was al
ways customary in drawing extradition
treaties to exclude political offenses from
the list of extraditable crimes. Il do
not stand here to justify the assassination
of the Gar said he, "but / am here to
do justice to the man who follows the
dictates of his conscience and thinks it
his duty to kill the Gar
In conversation with a reporter in
Chicago, Senators VOORHEES, and Beck
expressed the opinion that the President
would call an extra session of Congress
by October to consider revenue taxa
ton.
The Secretary of the Interior has made
a requisition on the Secretary of the
Tresury for 5000, 900, to be used during
the present month in payment for pen
siOns.
Samuel Pasco, the Democratic caucus
nominee, has been elected United States
senator in joint convention of the Florida
Legislature. The vote stood: Pasco, "a :;
Goodrich Republican,, II.
The will of the late Washington C. De-
Paw, of New Albany, Ind, has been
probated. 1t bequeaths 100000 to his
family, and residue of his estate, esti-
mated at $5,000,0OO, is devoted to benev-
client and educational purposes, includ-
ing bequest of $1,025,O00 to DePauw
University.
Both houses of the Virginia Legisla-
tura have ad0ntpd a resolution cnttin IT.